Sir Richard Branson is reportedly going to visit Romania in May! He is one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs of our days and a personal role model given his multifaceted achievement, whether in business, personal life, charity work, music or sport. A visionary with astounding resources, Richard Branson is the offspring of Britain’s economic boom following the WWII. A man of many talents with undeterred perseverance when it comes to … Read more »Entrepreneurship is GREAT Britain
Great Britons in Romania: David Savage, Ben Wells and the Nightingales Children’s Project
There are many Brits doing great things in Romania, like David Savage and Ben Wells from the Nightingales Children’s Project, a charity based in Cernavoda, 200kms from Bucharest. David came to Romania in 1993 to work in a local orphanage, and soon realised that there was a large number of children living in the orphanage without the care, stimulation, education or love that all children need. So he set up … Read more »Great Britons in Romania: David Savage, Ben Wells and the Nightingales Children’s Project
Santa’s for everyone
Blog post by Cora Motoc and Peter Thomas from the Political team in the British Embassy As we all know Christmas is all about giving. So for the second year running the British Embassy was very pleased to participate in the “Santa’s for everyone” campaign by collecting toys and clothes to donate to urban and rural Roma communities around Romania. On Tuesday we had the pleasure of travelling to Mizil, … Read more »Santa’s for everyone
Training on first aid
It has been a longstanding personal goal to learn to give first aid and this has eventually come to fruition with support from a local NGO Asociatia React and enthusiastic volunteers at SMURD Bucharest, the special unit within the municipal fire brigade. I was very pleased to hear that SMURD, an almost iconic institution with a large outreach all across Romania, has joined this initiative. On one hand, SMURD has … Read more »Training on first aid
Shadowing Lord Green in Warsaw
I spent a couple of days with my colleagues at the British Embassy in Poland during the visit of Lord Green, Minister for Trade and Investment, to discuss commercial opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe and also to launch the “Emerging Europe” brand. With Poland and Romania the 6th and the 7th largest countries in EU respectively, there is a strong case to be made to British businesses, particularly SMEs, … Read more »Shadowing Lord Green in Warsaw
A British investment in humanness
British philanthropist Graham Perolls and his superb team at Casa Sperantei have been supporting Romanian charity sector for almost two decades now. As British Ambassador Martin Harris commented recently, Casa Sperantei is a British strategic investment in humanness. Graham is sharing with us details of his latest project aimed at helping terminally-ill patients in Bucharest and its surroundings. After two years of fundraising, negotiating, designing and planning, we finally have … Read more »A British investment in humanness
Romanian military, a steadfast partner
Guest blogger: Colonel Giles Orpen-Smellie, the British Defence Attaché, on his contribution to the visit by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly to Bucharest It was a pleasure to be able to address the British Parliamentary delegation, led by Sir Menzies Campbell MP, a former leader of the British Liberal-Democrat Party, who visited Bucharest over the weekend to represent the United Kingdom at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly. This was a high-profile delegation … Read more »Romanian military, a steadfast partner
Commercial Diplomacy at the heart of our work
I was in London last week for a packed one-day training to understand how the Foreign Office supports the overall work of the British Government to take forward the growth and prosperity agenda. Commercial diplomacy is a newly coined concept yet diplomats have always been looking out for business potential in their host countries, whether in areas fit for British investment or in relation to inward investment from overseas businesses. … Read more »Commercial Diplomacy at the heart of our work
European boost to SMEs
European leaders meeting in Brussels last week agreed that the regulatory burden on SMEs needs to be further reduced, something that the UK has very strongly argued for in its agenda for growth. The European Commission will therefore undertake to assess the impact of future regulations on micro enterprises and to screen the acquis to identify existing obligations from which micro enterprises could be excluded. This is very good news. … Read more »European boost to SMEs
Meet a Brit – media training coming soon
As economic recovery and competitiveness are at the heart of the European agenda, the British Embassy plans to run a media training programme on this heavyweight issue in the autumn. The idea is to bring a senior British business journalist to Romania to share from his/her experience in reporting and commenting about the challenges and opportunities facing the European bloc, Romania and the UK included. After all, the EU is … Read more »Meet a Brit – media training coming soon